# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380 "2022-09-28T11:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 120
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2382 "2023-03-03T20:52:44Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > > [@markn\_1](#): > > > > My refrigerator has french doors, with a freezer below the fridge. There doesn’t seem to be an option for that > > That is the very definition of a french door fridge > > [https://mobileimages.lowes.com/productimages/0107ce64-fd74-4761-926e-61c387930990/16436926.jpg?size=pdhism](https://mobileimages.lowes.com/productimages/0107ce64-fd74-4761-926e-61c387930990/16436926.jpg?size=pdhism) I have French doors, but with two freezer drawers. This is the way to go. mmm ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2383 "2023-03-03T22:27:17Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > We have shared workspaces (basically a mixture of long desks and smaller work tables), and no one has an assigned office/desk/cube. I worked in a situation like this for about six months, and I absolutely _HATED_ it. > [@Wheelz](#): > > Music or Arts, because at this point in my life I have no more need to obtain any marketable skills, so if I _have_ to return to school I might as well be doing something I can enjoy. This was my thinking, too. I hate side-by-side fridges. Whenever I’d visit my older sister’s house, her old side-by-side drove me crazy. Her, too. Uh, the fridge drover her crazy, not she drove me crazy. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2384 "2023-03-03T22:31:17Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I worked in a situation like this for about six months, and I absolutely _HATED_ it. The ad agency where I work moved into that workspace as a result of being purchased by a bigger agency network in mid-2019; we were moved a few blocks, from our old offices, to a building which houses several of our new sister agencies, in November of '19, and all of their workspace areas are laid out that way. I’d only working there on a daily basis for about 4 months when COVID hit, and they sent us home to work remotely. I go back into the office occasionally now, but still strongly dislike it. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2385 "2023-03-03T22:35:29Z")
I _really_ don’t like the taste of refrigerator door ice. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2386 "2023-03-03T22:43:35Z")
I never connect the icemaker to my refrigerator, after at least two disasters when the icemaker leaked. Once I came home late from a concert, to find water dripping from an overhead light fixture in the entry hallway. I ran upstairs and saw water leaking out of the refrigerator. Without careful consideration of the situation, I yanked open the freezer door, and several tens of gallons of water poured out onto the kitchen floor. After that I disconnected the icemaker. I don’t use ice very much, and ice cube trays are not hard to use. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2387 "2023-03-03T22:56:01Z")
Refrigerator is a side-by-side with an icemaker/chilled water dispenser in the door but all of the machinery behind it was taken out to gain freezer space. I got it from my brother when a hose leaked for the third time so he replaced it. We had no easy way to get water to it in any event. There was no kneeling involved when **DesertWife** and I decided to get hitched. We were in the third month of a polyamorous relationship, her bouncing between her husband and me. Unbeknownst to me he was getting restive about it and told her she would have to choose. After we did the deed one evening, as we were cuddling she asked, “If I were to leave my husband, would you marry me?” “In a heartbeat,” I replied. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2388 "2023-03-04T00:57:31Z")
A very incomplete list: Vanilla extract: French toast Wine: Sunday sauce, chicken Marsala Beer: beer brined ribs Vodka: vodka sauce ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2389 "2023-03-04T02:58:31Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Vanilla extract: French toast You just reminded me of one… in French toast, instead of the vanilla extract, try a little Grand Marnier. “I have cooked with liqueur” was the one box I didn’t check in that poll because I couldn’t think of anything I used it in, but I just remembered that one. I need to go back and change my vote. I’ve used it as a flavoring in ice cream as well (which I did think of at the time, but I decided ice cream didn’t count as “cooking”). ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2390 "2023-03-04T03:23:24Z")
I have cooked **with** all of those. I have cooked **on** all of those. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2391 "2023-03-04T03:40:42Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever cooked with beer. I have Chinese with will the others. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2392 "2023-03-04T03:44:10Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > > We have shared workspaces (basically a mixture of long desks and smaller work tables), and no one has an assigned office/desk/cube. > > I worked in a situation like this for about six months, and I absolutely _HATED_ it. Oh my God, shoot me now. Actually, i worked for a while in a place where we each had a tiny cube, but we did our actual work at either a PC or a terminal, and those were all in “the pit”, and we’re first come, first serve. It was horrible. We literally had a fist fight break out one day over who got which PC. I never got into a physical fight, but it was stressful and adversarial. It was such a huge upgrade when we each got our own cube with our own PC. Other than that, it was a terrific job. But oy. That was horrible. Now i just have “hotelling”, which is bad, and is the major reason i work from home. But it’s not fist-fight bad. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2393 "2023-03-04T03:48:26Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I don’t think I’ve ever cooked with beer. In many cases, where you read “water,” you can substitute “beer.” I use it for everything from thinning my chili to boiling shrimp. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2394 "2023-03-04T03:59:35Z")
Red and white wine in meat dishes, praline liqueur in an apple pie, and once I bought a bottle of sherry just to make a spanish chicken dish. I haven’t used hard liquor in cooked dishes, but I’ve used vodka in cheese balls, and a variety of hard liquors and liqueurs to make truffles. I’ve never used beer, because I don’t like beer. Mom made some beer bread or biscuits when I was in HS, and the flavor of the beer was not to my taste ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2395 "2023-03-04T04:03:09Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I don’t think I’ve ever cooked with beer. I have Chinese with will the others It’s one of the few on the list that I have. Beer battered chicken is pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2396 "2023-03-04T04:50:21Z")
I use Guinness in my chili, and my beef stew. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2397 "2023-03-04T13:09:01Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I don’t think I’ve ever cooked with beer. I have Chinese with will the others. That was a weird swypo. It should have been “I have cooked with all the others.” Beer actually doesn’t keep, and i basically don’t drink it except when visiting Germany. So i don’t have it around the house. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2398 "2023-03-04T16:07:48Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > > [@Loach](#): > > > > Vanilla extract: French toast > > You just reminded me of one… in French toast, instead of the vanilla extract, try a little Grand Marnier. “I have cooked with liqueur” was the one box I didn’t check in that poll because I couldn’t think of anything I used it in, but I just remembered that one. I need to go back and change my vote. I’ve used it as a flavoring in ice cream as well (which I did think of at the time, but I decided ice cream didn’t count as “cooking”). I have a Grand Mariner shrimp recipe that I would like to try but I’m marrying someone who doesn’t like seafood so it will probably go uncooked. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2399 "2023-03-04T16:18:58Z")
I answered No to the sake poll because I wasn’t sure mirin counted or not. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2400 "2023-03-04T16:46:21Z")
> [@susan](#): > > I _really_ don’t like the taste of refrigerator door ice. I’ve never had a refrigerator with an ice maker before. We now have a Sub Zero, with filters and stuff, and the water and ice tastes fine. Are you saying the “door ice” taste different than the inside the freezer ice? Because in my fridge, it’s the same ice, it just has to travel a little further. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2401 "2023-03-04T16:57:08Z")
I couldn’t find a fridge without an ice maker, so i removed the ice maker and its tubes, etc , to give me more freezer space. I keep two ice cube trays in it, which i mostly use to make pie crust. When i have a party, i buy a bag of food-grade ice for my friends who like to put ice in their drinks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=119) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=121)